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...from Nevada, at his unsuccessful campaign to cut down admittance of D.P.'s, at his troublemaking immigration clauses in the antisubversive law, Pat goes his own way. Where a New York Senator speaks for 14,741,445 people, Pat speaks for only 158,283-the smallest state population in the nation. He also speaks to many of them, and tends to their wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: You Can't Win | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Gerard P. Kuiper's closeup of Pluto with the 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, which revealed the planet to be 3,550 miles in diameter (a previous estimate: about twice this size) and the second smallest planet in the solar system (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: High Lights | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...once pronounced the New Deal's welfare programs a menace to the American way of life, in 1941 had loudly opposed Lend-Lease and U.S. "involvement" in Europe, had viewed with alarm presidential powers "to control completely the industrial life of America down to the smallest factory." What's more, he was also suspected of being overly soft toward Big Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Treatment | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...music hall, a cable car, a river barge) and some sharply written, ably played characters, notably a blonde, half-English entertainer (Glynis Johns) and a scoundrelly smuggler (Herbert Lorn) whose wholehearted cynicism puts a fillip of fun into his every scene. Actor Fairbanks does just as well as the smallest of Gilliat's bit-players, i.e., very well indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bundle from Britain | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

While the total number of students signed in this year constitutes the smallest student body the College has had since the war, the figure issued yesterday by the Registrar's Office is still 298 above the number 4,300, which Provost Buck last year said was to be the "normal" College post-war student complement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3431 Men File Through Mem Hall Increasing College Total to 4598 | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

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